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A weakness which has previously seemed unavoidable in particle interpretations of quantum mechanics (such as in the de Broglie-Bohm model) is addressed here and a resolution proposed. The weakness in question is the lack of action and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Roderick Sutherland

We evaluate the dispersion relation for massless fermions, described by the Dirac equation, and for zero-spin bosons, described by the Klein-Gordon equation, moving in two dimensions and in the presence of a one-dimensional periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 M. Barbier , F. M. Peeters , P. Vasilopoulos , J. Milton Pereira

We propose a geometric explanation of the standard model of Glashow, Weinberg and Salam for the known elementary particles. Our model is a generic Quantum Field Theory in dimension four, obtained by developing along a Lorentz sub-manifold…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Daniel Bennequin

Starting from a statistical model of the electron, which explains spin and spin measurements in terms of a probability density distribution resulting from a rapidly changing angular momentum during an extended Zitterbewegung, a light-like…

General Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Arend Niehaus

We develop the general theory of spinning particles with electric and magnetic dipole moments moving in arbitrary electromagnetic, inertial and gravitational fields. Both the quantum-mechanical and classical dynamics is investigated. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Yuri N. Obukhov , Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg V. Teryaev

We show how to obtain all covariant field equations for massless particles of arbitrary integer, or half-integer, helicity in four dimensions from the quantization of the rigid particle, whose action is given by the integrated extrinsic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Ramos , J. Roca

The worldline of a free electron is revealed by applying Dirac's velocity operator to its Dirac wave function whose space-time arguments are expressed in a proper time by a Lorentz transformation. This motion can be decomposed into two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 James L Beck

We derive the relativistic chiral transport equation for massless fermions and antifermions by performing a semiclassical Foldy-Wouthuysen diagonalization of the quantum Dirac Hamiltonian. The Berry connection naturally emerges in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-24 Cristina Manuel , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

We address the issue of fermionic particle creation in cosmological bouncing models governed by General Relativity, but where the bounce itself takes place due to quantum effects. If the energy scale of the bounce is not very close to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-10 A. Scardua , L. F. Guimarães , N. Pinto-Neto , G. S. Vicente

Wigner's quantum-mechanical classification of particle-types in terms of irreducible representations of the Poincar\'e group has a classical analogue, which we extend in this paper. We study the compactness properties of the resulting phase…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 Jacob A. Barandes

Quantum field theory is mostly known as the most advanced and well-developed theory in physics, which combines quantum mechanics and special relativity consistently. In this work, we study the spinless quantum field theory, namely the…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 Dong-Sheng Wang

An electroweak model in which the masses of the W and Z bosons and the fermions are generated by quantum loop graphs through a symmetry breaking is investigated. The model is based on a regularized quantum field theory in which the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-12 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

The zero point field is an ordinary field existing in the dark, which cannot be separated from the total electromagnetic field in an excited mode. The total field is in equilibrium with matter that it polarizes temporarily and reversibly.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Jacques Moret-Bailly

A model is presented of the leptons, quarks and bosons as non-elementary particles being composed of spinons. They are defined as massless fermions obeying the Weyl equations, but in addition are charged and assumed to have two internal…

General Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Eckart Marsch

Zitterbewegung of a Dirac electron is an oscillation between positive and negative energy states, and is thus distinct from the analogous phenomena exhibited by spin half charged particles in electric and magnetic fields. Quantum field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-26 Basil S. Davis

We consider the adiabatic evolution of the Dirac equation in order to compute its Berry curvature in momentum space. It is found that the position operator acquires an anomalous contribution due to the non Abelian Berry gauge connection…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Alain Bérard , Herve Mohrbach

Based on the mathematics of noncommutative geometry, we model a 'classical' Dirac fermion propagating in a curved spacetime. We demonstrate that the inherent causal structure of the model encodes the possibility of Zitterbewegung - the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Michał Eckstein , Nicolas Franco , Tomasz Miller

The virial and the Hellmann--Feynman theorems for massless Dirac electrons in a solid are derived and analyzed using generalized continuity equations and scaling transformations. Boundary conditions imposed on the wave function in a finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 Alexey A. Sokolik , Andrey D. Zabolotskiy , Yurii E. Lozovik

Our main proposition is that field equations for all spins can be obtained from Casimir eigenvalue equations for Poincare group. We have already confirm that statement for massive scalar, spinor and vector fields in Ref.[1]. In the present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-16 B. Sazdović

An ultraviolet complete particle model is constructed for the observed particles of the standard model. The quantum field theory associates infinite derivative entire functions with propagators and vertices, which make quantum loops finite…

General Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 J. W. Moffat